Lynchburg Daily Virginian

EXECUTION OF STEVENS AND HAZLETT.—Stevens and Hazlett, the two last of the condemned of the John Brown raid, were executed at Charlestown yesterday. The Free Press of that town says:

The sister of Stevens (Mrs. Pierce) from Connecticut, came on Thursday last, and has been with him and the family of Capt. Avis since her arrival. It is much to be regretted that the perverted education of Stevens upon the subject of religion prevented him from a hearty response to the prayers and pious admonitions of his kind and sympathising sister—and the early associations of their childhood's hours must have clustered around the hearts of both as they sang together those nursery hymns which they remembered to have chanted in happier days.

It is impossible to look upon Stevens' manly form, and his eye flashing with intellectual fire, and not feel something of sorrow at his untimely fate. May it be a warning to others of the almost inevitable result that follows a departure from those lessons of piety which a mother's affection and solicitude always teaches us in our boyhood's years.

Hazlett's brother is also here to be present with him in his last moments. Old Mr. Spring has sent on fifty dollars to defray the expenses attendant upon the conveyance of Stevens' remains to the North for interment.

There were present at the execution some ten or twelve uniformed companies, including all the companies in Jefferson, the Berkeley and Clarke Guards, together with the companies from Winchester.